Eric Coutaud

Biography

Éric Coutaud’s practice focuses on public law, particularly urban planning and development law. For almost 30 years, he has advised regional authorities, as well as their associations and operators such as semi-public companies (SEM), local public enterprises (SPL), single-purpose public-private partnerships (SEMOP), public bodies, real estate developers, etc. Based in the Lille office, he practices in the Hauts-de-France region where he advises on all areas of public law, including general administrative law, public domain, economic intervention, delegation of public services, etc.

Éric specialises in setting up and implementing complex development and real estate projects. In this field, he advises on determining and implementing procedures for administrative permits and formalities, land management, contracts, financing of public infrastructure and on how to create, transform, merge and liquidate promotional, construction and development structures.

Over the course of his career, he has acquired extensive experience in the multimodality, set up and management of logistics zones.

Eric provides training and publishes articles on development law.